Government Priorities  To add insult to injury, these are the very same people who are going to be paying more for gas at the pump. Why is the Prime Minister making life so expensive for everyday, middle-class Canadians?

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  This bill will help implement major investments included in the 2019 budget. Most importantly, it will give the government new tools to help middle-class Canadians, reduce inequality and ensure that in Canada prosperity is truly inclusive. I will stress that I am talking about new measures. Bill C-97 builds on our accomplishments and the progress we have made these last four years.

Finance  Speaker, the government realized back in the fall of 2015 that it needed to lower taxes on middle-class Canadians. When people say things, it does not make them true. The fact of the matter is that nine million middle-class Canadians have lower taxes, because we lowered the tax bracket between $45,000 and $90,000 by 7%.

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Additional projects that were established to actively help Canadians hoping to get into the housing market are the rental construction financing initiative and the national housing strategy. We will continue working hard to ensure that for middle-class Canadians home ownership is not a pipe dream, but rather, an achievable goal.

Business of Supply  We are giving every dollar collected through the price on pollution back to Canadians, encouraging them to use that money to make more sustainable purchases. Middle-class Canadians will get more money back through the climate action incentive rebate each year than they would ever have to pay. This is something that the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed in his latest report, as I have mentioned.

Extension of Sitting Hours  It is a long list, so I will cite just a few of our accomplishments. Bill C-2 made good on our promise to lower taxes on middle-class Canadians by increasing taxes on the wealthiest 1% of Canadians. There are nine million Canadians who have benefited from this middle-class tax cut. This tax cut has been good for Canadians and their families.

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Speaker, I understand then that I have roughly 15 minutes to speak at this time, so I would be able to talk about how well middle-class Canadians are doing. Budget 2019 was really a continuation of our approach to ensure not only that our economy is doing well, but that middle-class Canadians can see a brighter future.

Transport committee  What's the big rush to be herding it through the budget bill rather than an appropriate way where there could be discussion on an appropriate basis? At the end of the day, it's middle class Canadians that this government always seems to hold up as the one group they're trying to make life better for, yet all this is going to do is add extra costs to middle-class Canadians.

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  The Parliamentary Budget Officer's report was, in my view, an endorsement and a validation of our policy of reducing taxes for middle-class Canadians and asking the 1% to pay a little extra.

Business of Supply  We heard Liberal members of Parliament today, and in weeks and months prior, talk about their defence of middle-class Canadians. The title of their most recent budget touched on their defence of middle-class Canadians. I welcome them to speak to Canadians where I am from in northern Manitoba, to hear how their lives have become more challenging in the last few years, yes, under the previous Harper government but also under the current government.

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  I ask them to join us and agree that those provisions and this deal are good for Canadians and good for middle-class Canadians.

Carbon Pricing  The reality is that the climate action incentive and our plan to put a price on pollution actually get more money in the pockets of middle-class Canadians than without a price on pollution. This is in fact an environmental tax break for middle-class families. That is what we are moving forward with, a way to both protect the environment, fight climate change and make it affordable for Canadians.

Finance  It is by investing in the middle class that we created one million jobs, reduced poverty, lowered the unemployment rate and helped middle-class Canadians.

Carbon Pricing  It is no wonder there is a disconnect between the current Prime Minister's policies and the impacts they will have on middle-class Canadians. A carbon tax raises the price of everything. Food, flights, gas and all household items are more expensive because of it. This week we learned that the Liberal carbon tax will fail in its alleged purpose of helping Canada reach its Paris Agreement targets.

Business of Supply  We have moved forward with a boost to the guaranteed income supplement, which puts more money in the pockets of low-income single seniors, some of the most vulnerable folk in the communities I represent, with up to $947 extra a year. That is why we moved forward with a tax cut for nine million middle-class Canadians and raised taxes on the wealthiest 1%. Each of these measures was opposed by the official opposition. To hear them now criticize a plan based on the fact that it will make life more expensive creates some serious cognitive dissonance considering that they voted against all the measures that were making life more affordable.